Bihar : Govt to set up 5 more medical colleges

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has asked the state health department to set up five new medical colleges and upgrade the existing ones to provide latest medical facilities to patients.December 18, 2015, 08:40 IST

Quite obviously, a random selection of inspectors from 183 government medical colleges in the country could not give such a skew.Patna: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has asked the state health department to set up five new medical colleges and upgrade the existing ones to provide latest medical facilities to patients. He has also ordered establishment of a de-addiction centre in every district.

The decision to set up new medical colleges, in line with the seven commitments made by Nitish during the poll campaign, was taken at a review-cum-five year road map preparation meeting of the department here on Thursday. All the new medical colleges will also have a nursing college on their campus and strictly follow the norms of Medical Council of India (MCI).

Senior officers present at the meeting said the CM has asked them to start work on establishment of new medical colleges and strict enforcement of the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act. At present, there are nine medical colleges in the state.

"The department was asked to start work on establishment of new colleges and also to upgrade existing colleges, including PMCH, NMCH and DMCH besides IGIC. The CM emphasized on the need to make PMCH, NMCH and IGIC of international standards so that any patient suffering from serious ailments gets the best treatment," said an officer, adding the CM also stressed on the need to make available free medicine at all the government hospitals.

It was also decided that all district hospitals, which have four-bed ICU at present, should have 10-bed ICU and all additional primary health centres will be equipped with the facility of radiology and pathology. "It was also decided to set up CT Scan and MRI facilities in all medical colleges on public-private partnership basis. Availability of doctors and paramedical staff at all 212 community health centres of the state will be ensured," said the officer.

To check absence of doctors and paramedical staff from hospitals and health centres, a team would be constituted which will conduct surprise checks and take disciplinary action against those found absent from their places of posting. The CM also stressed on the need for improvement in sex ratio in those districts which have less females than males.

It was also decided that all district hospitals, which have four-bed ICU at present, should have 10-bed ICU and all additional primary health centres will be equipped with the facility of radiology and pathology

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